Justice League Ray Fisher - WB Investigation Updates Thread

[Micromind]

How was Joss leaving Batgirl movie a bad news ?

 

[MbJ]

Interestingly this comes the same week as Geoff Johns getting confirmed for more new projects with DC. I wonder if the prediction that WB would throw Whedon under the bus to continue their working relationship with Johns comes true.

How was Joss leaving Batgirl movie a bad news ?

Depends on your POV. Obviously the Snyder fans would have hated it on principle, but Avengers was still enormously popular, as were some of his past works like Buffy and Angel. He also had an extremely passionate fanbase. He's been tarnished now by the cheating scandal and the more mixed response to Age of Ultron and Justice League, but there was a time when Joss Whedon making a Batgirl movie would've seemed like an easy slam dunk for DC.

 

[Schlosser85]

That's some lame bull****.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Perhaps Ray will finally be satisfied when Whedon writes a fifty page personal apology and then commits Seppuku.

Hopefully this is genuinely because of misbehavior uncovered on the set of The Nevers and not just ass-covering for the unending miserable, pointless soap opera Justice League has warped into.

 

[LauraT]

From the looks of it Ray won't be satisfied until there's a Cyborg trilogy and Whedon can't even afford to go see it at the dollar theatre. I get that he's furious but he's not always doing himself a favour on twitter.

I absolutely think there's more to this than "exhaustion" even though it feels like Joss has left more WB projects than completing them since his shows ended and COVID always adds another layer.

I'm also sceptical of this investigation actually changing anything that needs to be changed since Whedon is much more expendable to WB than Johns is and he keeps getting more and more to do.

 

[Comicbookguy339]

How was Joss leaving Batgirl movie a bad news ?

I think he would have made a solid Batgirl movie tbh. And him leaving/getting kicked off sunk the entire project.

 

[SwordOfMorning]

From the looks of it Ray won't be satisfied until there's a Cyborg trilogy and Whedon can't even afford to go see it at the dollar theatre. I get that he's furious but he's not always doing himself a favour on twitter.

I absolutely think there's more to this than "exhaustion" even though it feels like Joss has left more WB projects than completing them since his shows ended and COVID always adds another layer.

I'm also sceptical of this investigation actually changing anything that needs to be changed since Whedon is much more expendable to WB than Johns is and he keeps getting more and more to do.

Clearly he wanted them to explicitly and publicly fire Whedon and burn him in a manner that would get him blacklisted, I guess? Which seems like a ridiculously unreasonable expectation even if you think that's what would be "right".

It's going to be hilariously awkward if The Nevers is a huge hit and inspires the kind of insanely devoted, obsessive fanbase nearly all of Whedon's TV work does.

 

[Schlosser85]

From his self-aggrandizing tweets, Ray Fisher won't be satisfied until he's regarded as a civil rights icon on par with Rosa Parks, MLK, and John Lewis, considering he's flat-out compared himself to them.

 

[Alonsovich]

Its funny how some of you guys only appear around the JL forums when Whedon is under attack...

 

[SwordOfMorning]

Oh, I'm 100% just here for the behind the scenes drama - hence why I’d never really post in the other threads here. Justice League as a movie just sounds like an uninteresting chore to me, the absolute clown-show behind the scenes where half the people involved come off varying degrees of terrible (Whedon included) on the other hand is super interesting. Filmmaking can be just as interesting as films themselves.

 

[MbJ]

 

[Mr. E Nygma]

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[kguillou]

Hoo boy. What does this mean exactly?

 

[MbJ]

Nobody knows. WB hasn't given any details.

 

[kguillou]

Joss Whedon’s Nevers exit was probably part of this.

 

[heatvision38]

This sounds to me that he likes the direction things are going in.

 

[MbJ]

Joss Whedon’s Nevers exit was probably part of this.

WB refusing to comment makes me think that too. Probably let him save face with the excuse about voluntarily stepping down due to exhaustion.

 

[brandeezy89]

WB refusing to comment makes me think that too. Probably let him save face with the excuse about voluntarily stepping down due to exhaustion.

WB responded via Deadline, they said they knew nothing about the decision and who WarnerMedia is talking about (The persons or person in trouble)

 

[Herolee10]

 

[MbJ]

...The hell?

 

[Mr. E Nygma]

 

[MbJ]

“WarnerMedia’s investigation into the Justice League movie has concluded and remedial action has been taken,” the AT&T-owned media company said in a late Friday news dump. Beyond the statement from Global Communications chief Christy Haubegger, WarnerMedia would not give any more details on what that action is or who it was directed towards. I hear high-level Warner Bros executives on the motion picture side were blindsided by tonight’s announcement, and oblivious as to who specifically was receiving punishment in this situation; the entire JL-Fisher incident being completely handled by parent WarnerMedia.

Lol

 

[chintai80]

 

[Micromind]

More action is due ?